Shoulder-firearm.



T. G. JOHNSON.

SHOULDER FIREARM. APPLIOATION FILED- 00T.10, 1914.

Patented neck 22, 1914,

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T. C. JOHNSON. SHOULDER FIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED 00?.10, 1914.

Patented Dea 22, 1914.

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THOMAS C. JOHNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WINCHESTER REPEATIN G ARMS (30., OF NEW HAVEN, CON NEG'TIGUT, A CORPORATION.

SHOULDER-FIREARM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

Application filed October 10, 1814. Serial No. 866,091.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoulder- Firearms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure 1 a broken view in side elevation of midtary rifle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a broken view thereof in vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 3 a view thereof in vertical transverse section on the line ab of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 a detached view in rear elevation of the removable abutment-band. Fig. 5 a view thereof in vertical section on the line c-(Z of Fig. 4. Fig. (i a view thereof in front elevation. Fig. 7 a detached broken view in side elevation of the front end of the receiver. Fig. 8 a detached broken view in side elevation of the front end of the buttstock. Fig. 9 a view thereof in front elevation. Fig. 10 a detached view in rear elevation of the forearm. Fig. 11 a broken view thereof in side elevation showing the tenon at its rear end.

Heretofore military arms have generally been provided with long one-piece stocks extending well forward toward the muzzle-end of the barrel. Such one-piece stocks are expensive and diflicult to procure in the right grades of wood, and are liable as constructed and'applicd, to be internally shattered by the shocks of recoil.

The object of my present invention is to secure the economic and structural advantages attending the use of short pieces of wood for gun-stocks, and to provide a construction in which the shocks of recoil are taken to better advantage than in arms having one-piece stocks, and without danger of shattering the wood.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in the combination with the receiver of a shoulder firearm, of an abutment-band removably mounted upon the forward end of the receiver and having its rear and forward faces respectively adapted for the application to them of the forward end of a buttstock and the rear end of a forestock.

My invention further consists in certain details of construction and combination of parts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ an abutment-band 2 made in one piece and provided at its upper end with a relatively large circular threaded opening 3 adapting the band to be removably mounted upon an externally and internallv threaded sleeve 4: projecting from the forward end of the receiver 5 which may otherwise be of any approved construction, the said sleeve l being adapted by its internal threads to receive the threaded shank 6 at the breech end of the gun-barrel 7. That portion of the band 2 depending be low the receiver is formed in its rear face with a large shallow fiat-bottomed recess 8 surrounded by a retaining-flange 9, and receiving a large but short tenon 10 formed upon the forward end of the wooden buttstock ll which may be of any suitable form and attached in any desired manner to the arm. The forward face of the band 2 is formed with a large, shallow fiat-bottomed recess 12 surrounded by a retaining-flange 13 and receiving a large but short tenon 14 formed upon the rear end of the wooden forearm 15 which extends forward under the gun-barrel in the usual manner.

The shocks of recoil are transmitted from the receiver 5 to the abutment-band 2 and from the same to the relatively large flat face of the tenon 10 of the buttstock 11 which in this way is able to take without any danger of splinterin g, the shocks of re coil, particularly since the tenon is reinforced by the fiange 9 of the recess 8 in the rear face of the band.

Ordinarily the lower tang 19 of military arms is fastened at its forward end directly to a lug depending from the receiver toward the forward end thereof. As herein shown, I form my improved abutment-band 2 with a centrally arranged, rearwardly projecting lug 16 formed with a vertical screw hole 17 for the reception of a screw 18 passing upward through the extreme forward end of the lower tang 19 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. T he band is recessed as at 20 for the reception of the forward end of the tang and the buttstock correspondingly recessed at 30 for the same purpose.

In the construction shown, the gun-barrel 7 is furnished at its rear end with a sightcarrier base or sleeve 21' formed at its forward end with an integral depending abutment-lug 22 counter-bored and threaded for the reception of a screw entering a socket 2% in the lower face of the barrel 7, whereby the sleeve 21 is positioned and held in place thereupon. F or the reception of the depending-lug 22, the forearm 15 is formed in its upper face with a recess 25 the rear wall of which engages with the rear face of the lug 22 so as to firmly hold the forearm against longitudinal forward movement.

As shown the gun is provided with a wooden barrel-cover 26 furnished at its rear end with a tenon 27 fitting into a recess 28 in the forward end of the sleeve 21. At its forward end the cover is held in place by a band 29, commonly called the middle band, which also embraces the forearm 15 and clamps them both upon the barrel 7.

I claim 1. In a. shoulder firearm, the combination with a receiver provided at its forward end with a forwardly projecting sleeve, of a barrel entered into the said sleeve, a removable abutment-head formed at its upper end with an opening adapting it to be passed over the said sleeve and secured thereto and having the opposite faces of its lower end adapted for the application to them, respectively, of the forward end of a buttstock and the rear end of a forestock.

2. In a shoulder firearm, the com ination with the receiver thereof, of a removable abutment-band mounted upon the forward end of the receiver and having its rear and forward faces formed with recesses for the reception respectively of a tenon formed upon the forward end of the buttstock of the gun and the rear end of the forestock thereof.

3. In a shoulder firearm, the combination with areceiver provided at its forward end with an externally threaded sleeve, of a removable abutment-band formed at its upper end with a large threaded opening adapting it to be mounted upon the said threaded sleeve and having the opposite faces of its lower end adapted for the application to them, respectively, of the forward and rear ends of the buttstock and forearm of the gun.

f. In a shoulder firearm, the combination with the receiver thereof, of a removable abutment-band applied to the forward end of the said receiver and having its opposite faces respectively adapted to receive the front and rear ends of the buttstock and forearm of the gun, and a tang having its forward end fastened directly to the lower portion of the said band.

In a shoulder firearm, the combination with the barrel thereof, of a sight-carrier sleeve mounted upon the rear end of the barrel and provided at its forward end with a depending lug receiving a screw entering the lower face of the barrel, and a forestock recessed to receive the said lug which holds the forestock against longitudinal forward movement.

6. In a shoulder firearm, the combination with a receiver, of an abutment-band removably mounted upon the forward end thereof and having its opposite faces respectively adapted for the application to them of the front and rear ends of the buttstock and forearm of the gun, a barrel mounted in the forward end of the receiver, and a sight-carrier sleeve mounted upon the rear end of the barrel and furnished with a depending-lug receiving a fastening screw and entering a recess in the forearm to prevent the longitudinal forward movement thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

Fmannmc C. EARLE,

C. Li WEED.

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